PHI 101 Chap 11

Kant asserts, __________.

"Though all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it all arises out of experience.".

Kant tells us, "Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind." These are __________.

"the capacity of receiving impressions" and "the power of knowing an object through these representations".

_________ is a moral theory in which the rightness of actions is determined partly or entirely by their intrinsic nature.

Deontology.

According to Kant, an action is right to the extent that it conforms with societal norms.

False.

Kant argues that the moral law is conditional.

False.

Kant believes that we should not treat persons merely as a means except when society's welfare is at stake.

False.

Kant declares that we should never in any circumstances treat people as a mere means.

False.

Kant is a moral relativist.

False.

Kant thinks that knowledge is constituted by experience.

False.

The categorical imperative is an expression of Kant's consequentialist moral theory.

False.

Kant addresses __________ skepticism about the possibility of scientific knowledge.

Hume's.

Kant claims that the categorical imperative is the expression of a purely rational moral principle.

True.

Kant is a deontologist.

True.

One formulation of the categorical imperative asserts, "I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law."

True.

_______ holds that right actions are those that result in the most beneficial balance of good over bad consequences for everyone involved.

Utilitarianism.

According to Kant, nothing can be called "good" without qualification except __________.

a good will.

Morality is __________.

beliefs about right and wrong actions and good and bad persons or character.

A moral theory in which the rightness of actions depends solely on __________ is called a __________ theory.

consequences; consequentialist.

An analytic statement is a(n) __________.

logical truth whose denial results in a contradiction.

According to __________, an action is right if an individual believes it is right.

moral relativism.

A deontological moral theory is also known as a __________ theory.

nonconsequentialist.

Kant proposes that __________.

objects conform to the mind.

Kant wants to know how __________ knowledge is possible in metaphysics.

synthetic a priori.

Kant says that when trying to decide whether an action is morally permissible, we must ask if we can consistently will that the maxim of our action should become a __________.

universal law.

Defenders of __________ assert it promotes tolerance. The correct answer was: b. virtue ethics.

utilitarianism.